When someone asks if you want to sleepover in one of England’s largest, and possibly most haunted, castle your immediate reaction should always be “yes, definitely yes”. Earlier this week I lived out that dream,…

When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, he was accompanied by 167 scholars, his Commission on the Sciences and Arts. Their work revealed a dazzling world of ancient temples and tombs to European eyes. The…

BEWARE: SPOILERS! You have to love Game Of Thrones. You know, that show that everyone has been fawning over?! OK, OK. So I know it’s mythical and not necessarily historical, but whatever! Written by a…

Ask most people about the women in the Duke of Wellington’s life and they’ll mention the notorious courtesan, Harriet Wilson (“Publish and be damned.”). Some may even be able to tell you that the Dukes’ …

Valentine’s Day saw the opening of a previously undiscovered set of rooms at Hampton Court Palace. For years these rooms had been used to store unused items, until one clever Curator put the pieces of the jigsaw together…